From Paris, with Accelerent, hot wings and charity for LLS Visionary research

Our defending Accelerent champion and runner-up for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society “Visionary Of The Year,” Cate Paris joins Nestor to discuss networking the right way, raising money to beat cancer and a future career in improv comedy from State Fare on “A Cup Of Soup or Bowl Week” in Catonsville.

Nestor Aparicio hosts a radio show focused on community awareness and charity, highlighting the efforts of Cate Paris, a runner-up in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Visionary of the Year campaign. Cate discusses the competition, where local leaders raise funds and awareness over 10 weeks, with this year’s event starting on March 27. She shares her fundraising experiences, including a Krispy Kreme donut competition and a hot wing-eating event. Nestor also talks about his involvement with the LLS and his experiences with the Maryland lottery and Accelerent, emphasizing the importance of giving and networking.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

community awareness, charity events, Leukemia Society, Visionary competition, fundraising efforts, hot wings challenge, networking group, motivational speakers, relationship building, giving back, accelerant partnership, Maryland lottery, State Fair, Catonsville, emergency assistance

SPEAKERS

Cate Paris, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

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Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. I’m wearing the bow tie here today, which is great. I’ve got to keep my guests on the right side of me and stay on the right side of them as well. It’s all brought to you by friends at Maryland lottery, we have the magic eight ball, Vanna White or like, price is right. It’s probably more like that this thing here, yeah, there we go, the magic eight ball from the Maryland lottery. We have these. I’m also gonna have some monopolies to give away before it’s all over with it is a cup of soup or bowl. This week, we get together and talk to nice people doing nice things in the community about awareness and charity, and, I don’t know, giving a little something back that we do around here. A lot of years we did the Super Bowl, and when I had all the celebrities and hot shots and Snoop Dogg, and they all had a cause, and I thought, well, we’ll just do that locally. So if you want to hear Joe Flacco or Jamal Lewis or Mike Nolan or any of the Hall of Fame stuff, it’s all sitting at Baltimore positive. In the meantime, I’m bringing some old friends out, some new friends out. We’re at State Fair in Catonsville, where I am. My belly is full from the chicken and waffles. You know, I came in here today and they have now, I can’t show it to you because they have actual maple syrup on every table. And I walked in at like, 11 o’clock, and I’m like, now I want pancakes, and they and they said they stopped serving pancakes at noon, so I got the waffles, and I’m just as happy. I’ll come back get the pancakes over the weekend, Kate Paris is here. She was here before she was running for the thing that I always kid them that I’m I’m not a visionary. I just pretend to be one on the radio. They used to call it Man of the Year and a woman of the year. Well, I couldn’t be Woman of the Year, but I could be man. You couldn’t be Man of the Year, you could be one of the year, but Man of the Year sounds so like Jimmy Stewart. You know what I mean, like, it sounds like I’m not worthy, yeah, of being Man of the Year visionary. However, they’d say, Well, he sort of invented sports radio in Baltimore. I did, so maybe he is a visionary. They should say that. I mean, everybody, I’ve perfected it, if not. You know, I did listen to my competitors this week and thought, Oh, boy. But, but nonetheless, Kate, how are you and what you did not win. I mean, I’m looking at you saying you’re a visionary, but you weren’t the visionary of the year. You were the runner up. There’s nothing wrong with that. You raised a lot of

Cate Paris  02:32

money. I’m so incredibly proud to been the runner up last year during that campaign. What happened?

Nestor Aparicio  02:37

Tell me the whole deal. What I had you out. I had the junior folks out I am seed the junior LLS event. Beautiful kids doing great stuff. We had the best time. We danced the parties at the LLS people throw going back to when my wife had cancer, like 12 years ago. We did it was called Man of the Year. Then Hi Lee teser, up in Harford County. He was the Man of the Year that year, and he invited us, but it’s changed a little bit, right? But not the mission, obviously, of saving lives like my wife’s. But what the event was in raising money, and all the stuff he did last year, which they’re doing again,

Cate Paris  03:10

yeah, yeah. So the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society every year, it’s brilliant, this campaign, this philanthropic competition that they hold, and it’s a competition between local leaders. Last year, there were four of us. This year, we already have six lined up. I am not one of them. I’m on the committee, and we’re putting

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Nestor Aparicio  03:29

your mentor. I’m a mentor. Okay, good. I’m trying that. What’s with visionaries do? Right? Ah, right. All right, good. So

Cate Paris  03:36

yeah. So over the course of 10 weeks, starting on March 27 these visionary candidates do their darndest to raise as much money as possible, and there’s also as much awareness as possible to help people understand what the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society LLS is, and who it helps, and what it is, what’s the greater impact On on helping to cure cancer at large. So everyone involved, if it is the winner, if it’s the runner up, if it’s the fifth place, can candidate? It’s a

Nestor Aparicio  04:08

fun competition to raise money. Yeah. Did you 10 bar? Everybody tends

Cate Paris  04:12

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bar? I never did somehow, and I was a former actress. What was your fundraiser thing? What were you doing? So my fundraiser last year, I had a couple I had a Krispy Kreme donut competition going on. I

Nestor Aparicio  04:23

more than one of those. Oh, my them in

Cate Paris  04:27

the course of two hours. He It was a horrible mistake,

Nestor Aparicio  04:31

but I was gonna say, did he turn into sugar? Oh, it was the worst. He did. It make him sweeter, like an hour. I shouldn’t ask his wife. Could possibly be smooth? There you go. I just checked. Well, there you go. But it made

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Cate Paris  04:40

him sweet. I also hosted a hot wings. If you’ve ever seen the show,

Nestor Aparicio  04:44

I’m out. They have hot wings here at State Fair, but it’s not, yeah, I asked I gross, but it’s what happens afterwards. To me. It’s

Cate Paris  04:54

insane, but you don’t they’re not all insanely hot, like they start decent and they work their way up to. Crazy hot. And the entire time the CEOs that I had competing in this they had to answer ridiculous icebreaker questions. So it was super fun. And did you

Nestor Aparicio  05:08

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have it? Did you have any of my friends in it? Come on,

Cate Paris  05:12

Ricky Smith, the CEO of the BWI Airport. He was one of my I don’t know, but I fly in and Adams airport. He is phenomenal.

Nestor Aparicio  05:20

You know, Kirby feller said, right this year, last year, from the zoo, was one of my contestants. He I don’t see him as a spicy guy. He

Cate Paris  05:27

didn’t win, but he did a phenomenal job. And I got him to Salsa dance with the executive director of LLS, which was very fun. See,

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Nestor Aparicio  05:35

I would say I’ve had Shannon and Kirby on together from the zoo. I would see Shannon as much more of like spicy for me, well, I think just eating spicy wings fun

Cate Paris  05:43

for watching somebody go through them is somebody where it is a little bit of a challenge. People would much rather watch you eat a hot wing than than me. Can I be honest

Nestor Aparicio  05:52

about this? I was Buffalo Wild Wings sponsored for three years for the best seat in the house promotion. We did this promotion at Owings Mills. A lot of times Raven players were walking because it was because it was a Monday night, and they live in the community out there at the time. And Tyrod Taylor came and sat had a beer with us one night. And I think CJ Mosley just wandered in one night and sat down with us. But every Monday we didn’t do the show. It was, it was Monday Night Football. There was a limo and a best seed and a lazy boy and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But this was, like 1012, years ago. It was in the early part of video and our video channel, and they insisted that at halftime, we do this. So every week, at halftime for a $50 gift card or 20 it was, it wasn’t even nearly enough to literally have dysentery the next day, but it but like, I am seated, and we videotaped it, and they had little cartons of milk, yeah, I mean, because, like, Oh, they’re all, I watch men cry at 915 every Monday night for three Monday Night Football season. So I’m very familiar with em, seeing this, watching that breaking point of the I’m not gonna cry, you know, like, because you can’t. It’s, that’s why we thought that

Cate Paris  07:10

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you were so I couldn’t look of men crying. I couldn’t even

Nestor Aparicio  07:14

smell the sauce. The wings would come and I’d be like, Dude, I can’t even, I had to back up off. It’s like, like, Snoop, do I had to back up off, you know, because I couldn’t even do it. So did you eat them or no?

Cate Paris  07:25

Well, I was emceeing hot wings. Actually hosted a hot wing night at my house with several couples. The three of us couples, we sat around a table, and I made 10 different types of hot wings. It was, it was a big endeavor, icebreakers. That’s the only reason why, is because he won’t eat hot wings. And everyone who comes to my house, I’ll eat

Nestor Aparicio  07:47

ice cream. I’ll come over

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Cate Paris  07:50

challenge, then

Nestor Aparicio  07:53

you like into the Fourth of July hot dog. Guy. Why do we? Oh, I might suffer

Cate Paris  08:00

when an eating competition. Like, if I could go to one of those places where they have like, a half pan of mac and cheese, or, like, eat the 20 pound burger or whatever, like, I want

Nestor Aparicio  08:09

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to

Cate Paris  08:10

win a teat so much I love it.

Nestor Aparicio  08:13

Well, I do too. I mean, I’ve been eating all week. I was at Costas on Monday, you know, so I love you. You wouldn’t. You’re

Cate Paris  08:18

telling me you wouldn’t want to win a t shirt or have your picture on a wall because you ate some

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Nestor Aparicio  08:22

massive amount of something? No, no. I saw John Candy do the old 89 or whatever back in the I’m no, I grew up in Dundalk. We did buffets all the time. I was an oval teen because of all that, you know, I, no, no, no, I. But the the challenge of doing this is there. Video Kirby Fowler doing this. There

Cate Paris  08:41

is, there is, I have, I only have a snippet of him dancing the salsa. I don’t have the actual snippet of him eating the wings, but there are pictures out there. I’ll send you. I gotta

Nestor Aparicio  08:52

get so much fun. We did an event last year with your organization with accelerant. It’s true. It’s funny as it’s last time I saw Kirby. I was a guest of accelerant. I know Kate through accelerant, even though she’s a do gooder with LLS. My dear partner, Bill Cole, who did drag Kirby and Shannon out last year, among some other people. And Bill’s been super busy with Gordian energy and his roofing and his solar and his I broke my coffee mug on the set like six months ago, and it was my was, like, my Binky, the Cole roofing coffee, and now and broke it, and he hasn’t replaced it. And, yeah, he has sponsored one of the coolest things we do, which is our W, N, S, T tech service. So if you are on our tech service, there’s 6212 of you on it, you will get Bill Cole’s text from cole roofing. So he’s my conduit to all things accelerate but I actually was an accelerant partner before he was with my partner, Brian Billick, many years ago. Tell everyone Kate Paris about accelerant Well,

Cate Paris  09:54

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I will, and I think it’s appropriate that you’re talking to people this week about giving. Because, I mean, like, how amazing. Saying giving is as a concept. I mean, anybody who does a good deed for someone, they they feel good. Yeah, you feel good. And then the person that you’ve helped or given to, they feel good. And there are studies or scientific studies out there that have proven that if you do a good deed for someone or give them something, they feel compelled to want to give something back to you, to do something to help you. So when you look at accelerant, which to people who are not in it, it looks like it’s a networking group, but when you think of it as just a group of like minded companies, executives and their teams whose focus is not selling at each other and just and just trying to get everybody else to buy their services and their goods. But rather, they want to go through them to figure out how they can help them by connecting them to their network of decision makers and and everybody. Their first question upon meeting you is, how can I help you, versus what can I sell at you? That’s what accelerate is, is a bunch of givers who, because of the nature of giving help each other’s companies grow.

Nestor Aparicio  11:05

You know that sounds spacey, and I’ve heard three or four different people do it over the last 15 years, but it’s true. Because I come to your events, I get invited often. Thank you Bill, thank you Kate. Thank you everyone, Sandy, for sending the emails over and doing all that. And I missed I haven’t been in a couple of months, just for mornings and reasons and transportation and different stuff. We usually gather up in Hunt Valley on a Thursday, and it’s super early in the morning, which is great for me, because I am up at three or four every morning. So it it fits my thing. I didn’t come to your recent one because it was like four degrees. It was like the coldest morning of the year, and I wanted to go. I thought about going and like, 530 in the morning, the notion of, like, showering and doing it was just sort of like I had been out of the house all week because I look like a monster. I’m like, Well, I have to shave. I’m going over this thing because people like, cater there. I’m glad you make an effort. Yeah. Well, I I bring a lot of energy to accelerate when I show up there at 630

Cate Paris  12:03

in the morning. It’s maybe even too much for some people.

Nestor Aparicio  12:05

People can’t handle me, and they think that there’s more coffee in my cup, and it’s half and half, I promise you. But I am an extremely backstage for everybody. Luke and I, most of our segments we do at six in the morning. So at six in the morning, I’m moving. I’m ready to talk sports, talk football. So hours into your day I never don’t make accelerant because it’s too early in the morning, but I will be your coffee. You know what I mean, like you get Zeke’s to sponsor me through you. I can just be the coffee at the door, but it’s not salesy. And I would say that for my god, 15 years, maybe I’ve been involved with accelerant one way or another. Going back to man with Gordon, I’m just trying to go through all the names of the people that have run accelerant through the course of time, John as well, just other people. And I know, still know, you keep these relationships forever, you know the Dave Hartman’s the world, and just all these people that I know. I’m like, Well, how do I know that? Oh, I met him an accelerant, you know, like, and I could say 15 years later, yeah, if you were to look through my LinkedIn, and I’ll be doing that this weekend, because I’m coming to sell all of you. We’re done with soft sales and, like, I’m selling people. That’s right, that’s what. Well, accelerant doesn’t do that, but I’m about to do that, but, but at least I have people to sell too. There’s a lot of people in accelerant that I’ve never sold to, that I’m friends to, and I’m coming for every one of you now it’s your time 15 years in, but it isn’t salesy. It really, I mean, from your nighttime gigs to your daytime gigs, it’s relationship based. And I think years later, I’ve gotten a lot of business to accelerate. More than that, I’ve gotten relation friendships, people that I like in my world when

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Cate Paris  13:47

you when you focus on building that relationship, first sales come after. I mean, when someone likes you and they want you to succeed and they want you to win, and then they have a need for something that you can provide. They want to go to you before anyone else. So it’s not even like you’re selling. It’s it’s you’re you’re just working together in

Nestor Aparicio  14:07

Dundalk, we’d say, I know a guy that would be disrespectful to you because you’re a girl, but you know, knowing someone that can solve a problem across. Yeah, any business got a guy you’ve got, if you own a business, well, I tell you what, if you own a business, if you’re local, throw me an email, and I will try to see to it that you can come and be a part of the delicious breakfast at accelerant. I can’t promise you’ll sit with me, because I usually don’t sit. I usually go in and like, yeah,

Cate Paris  14:31

you’re just bouncing off the walls being everyone’s coffee

Nestor Aparicio  14:35

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the benefit of my life at this point, I’m 56 and this is going to be when I come to sell all of you, is that I know people, and when I come into your room, there’s 60 tables. Maybe, yeah, is that right? That’s about right. 60 tables. Sure, I don’t do the temple. Yeah, it’s 40, 5060, tables. I know. Least one person at 80% of the tables every month. And some months, I might know two or three. Some months, I might know eight out of the 10 people at the table. Yeah. So it is a small to more Baltimore Nido torpedo concept that I am thrilled to be invited to from time to time. And I think I could be a semi decent spokesperson for you when I’m not trying to sell people, because I’m a hard sell. I’m not hard selling.

Cate Paris  15:27

I’m not selling at people. I’ll tell them about this organization where nobody sells it people. Sometimes

Nestor Aparicio  15:32

when I sit with people, I like, like you, I feel like doing the sweaty balls Saturday Night Live skit. Kate Paris is here. She is from accelerant. She is here representing the LLS folks of leukemia, lymphoma society that I have helped many times over the years. My wife has been involved in having her life saved. So it’s like it’s pretty close to home for me, you know what I mean? And I haven’t cried yet on the air this week, I’m trying 13 times last year during a couple Super Bowl I’m zero for like 14 already, 13 times I cried. No, I just couldn’t help. I had bad stuff. Everything made me sad last year. This year, I’m feeling more uplifted, like I’m ready to Hill charge. You know what? I mean, get stuff

Cate Paris  16:11

done. It’s that hot yoga. It’s making, I think so perspective. So I missed your

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Nestor Aparicio  16:16

accelerant event a couple weeks ago, and I saw the guest speaker. Oh, he was amazing. Yeah, yeah. Well, that’s another thing you guys do. When I say, This isn’t like a meeting of the water buffalo club up it up at the Boomi temple. This is, there’s a whole presentation. There’s always some magic message early in the morning, whether it was Mary Ann Scully giving it years ago, with these little, little pieces and nuggets of knowledge, yeah, like your whole knowledge that you dropped on me at the beginning here about making people feel good, right, right, right, right. How fun. But you always have a really cool speaker that has been accomplished in some way, sports, business, motivation, male, female, military. You’ve done it all. Jaworski has been out at your spoke at your place. You have football players. You got all sorts of people. Yeah,

Cate Paris  17:04

we, we bring in amazing speakers coming this year. Oh,

Nestor Aparicio  17:08

don’t put your spot. No, you don’t know. You don’t have to answer that someone great to say

Cate Paris  17:13

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that honestly, they’re all, they’re all amazing. It could be anyone. And accelerant is so good at bringing in these motivational, inspirational speakers who have messages that that are delivered to executives and their teams alike. How many days are amazing? Well, I

Nestor Aparicio  17:31

my time’s valuable. I only tell you that, right? So some months, I will leave before the speaker speaks, because I have something to do. If I don’t, I’ll look it up and say, I’m gonna, you know, maybe this person flew airplanes or did site whatever they did in life. It’s cool that they’re there. And I’m thinking, Alright, maybe one day I’ll be the TED Talk speaker, and I need to, like, see what other people are doing. And you know, you’re paying on their flying in. They’re there to motivate people. They’re there to educate people. So when I find myself there and I’ve been in that room, come on, man, I’ve been to your excellency probably 50 times, right? So I’m familiar. I mean, I can go through names of former Sports Illustrated writers and authors and different people that you’ve had there, but when they put their slide presentation up and they’re trying to teach me something, you know, they’re trying to have that thesis of that 40 minute speech that motivates me, that teaches me something, that makes a distinction in my life, when I go like this to reach for my phone and start taking notes. So I could tell you happens the months that the speakers have been really good, because I have notes for it, and it always says accelerant on it because it reminds me of where it came from. So I probably have notes in 2014 16. I find them all the time. And I’m like, Oh, I remember that woman that was the pilot that had that, you know, had this point about this in preparation and whatever. And I’m like, why go to these things if you’re not soaking in knowledge that are there? Well,

Cate Paris  18:59

it’s amazing, though. I mean, the the breakfast or something different to every single person, like some people, the whole purpose of the breakfast is to bring someone with them as a guest who’s important to them. It could be a very close client. It could be a vendor that

Nestor Aparicio  19:12

they have so often, like,

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Cate Paris  19:14

maybe, is there for them to strengthen a relationship? Sure, maybe they’re there to to meet someone that they haven’t met yet, and they’re strictly there for a networking purpose. Maybe they don’t realize that what they are there to to be is to hear this message about finding success through your failures versus finding success through your obvious, easy successes. Like, maybe it’s a message they didn’t even know that they were there for. And then they hear it, and it changes how they look at everything, like everybody walks away from those breakfasts with some with some takeaway, anybody

Nestor Aparicio  19:45

that’s getting up on a five degree morning, and, I mean, you Karen Faulkner, you know I’m talking that went out there. Such a champion. I love her. Well, yeah, I mean, she’s up running on lifted weights at four to morning. So she did the show last month. So if you love Karen, well. In this advisory and all that good stuff, you can go get motivated and talk to her. She says, I motivate her, which is good. But for the people that go over there, and you know, Karen’s a great example. Somebody lives up a Hampstead, put on a dress. Look nice. Get your hair done, get out. Six in the morning. Have to leave. You show up. There’s a amount of effort that goes into that, to two or three hours that goes beyond seeing people, you know, or whatever. I just think it’s there’s a mojo about it, that people leave with energy, you know. I mean, I’ve left there at 930 many mornings thinking, learn something. Saw people I’d like and some people I don’t like and don’t like me. Sometimes, just kidding, it’s not Karen. She likes me, but I see people and it’s nice. And when I don’t go, my wife’s like, what’s wrong with you? Go out and talk to people. Get out of the house. Your wife is like, get out of the house. People like, you go out. You make people happy. Let your hair out. Smile at him. Talk some football with them. Now, the Justin Tucker thing, I don’t go out of the house anymore. I can’t talk football with anybody right now. Kate Paris is here. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. It is a cup of soup or bowl. She’s with accelerant. A, C, C, E, L, E r, E N T. Also our friends at

Cate Paris  21:11

LLS Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. If anyone out there is interested in making a difference in joining this philanthropic competition, we are looking for leaders. We’re looking for people with vast networks. We’re looking for people who truly want to make a difference.

Nestor Aparicio  21:24

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When I get into comedy, eventually, I’m going to need a sidekick like

Cate Paris  21:28

you need improv. We could do so much. Louis Anderson

Nestor Aparicio  21:32

sat on my set at the Super Bowl eight years ago, before he passed away, we were in Minnesota. Was the last time that Philly people were there acting like morons. It was cold as hell. Was Minnesota. It’s five degrees. We’re at the mall. So Louie, you can watch this on on YouTube, and I Mickey Coachella has been trying to get me to do comedy since he met me 20 years and Mickey, come on, man, I could, yeah, get your funnier. Mickey thinks I’m the funniest guy he knows and I’m not that funny. He’s the funniest guy I know, and I’m gonna try to get him to come to libs grill next week up in Bel Air, because he got no excuse. He can walk there from where he lives so but Mickey’s been trying to like coach me up my kid a little bit. He doesn’t admit that. He thinks I’m funny. He won’t laugh. Kid never will. But he thinks that he’s 41 now he’s getting my sense of humor a little bit better. And then Louie Anderson talked to me, and then my wife eggs me on by saying, You’re never gonna do it, are you? And I’m like, I almost did it for Ray Bachman last week. So I’m working my way I’ve been doing ever since the this guy got elected president. I have no choice but to work on Comedy right now. So I have been working on Comedy The last month. Louie Anderson is the wind beneath my wings, and I’ll say this, Louis Anderson, I’ve told this story maybe two or three times on the air. Gonna talk about comedy. Louis Anderson said to me, he said this on video, I’m gonna give you my number. You’re gonna call me. You’re gonna write some stuff, and we’re gonna work together. I’m gonna teach you how to do this. And he gave me his number. He gave me his email. Did you lose it? No worse. Year and a half later, I’m with my wife, and I landed at the Las Vegas airport. We were there for the capitals Stanley Cup. It’s a week that week, they won as only time I’ve been in Vegas my wife 10 years. So we landed, and we’re walking through the airport, and it’s late. We were on that flight that lands at midnight, one o’clock in the morning at leaves here at eight or whatever. Everything gets there late, right? Everything’s close, you know? Yeah, only two conveyor belts working in the Yeah, nothing. You hearing all of the ads in the Vegas area. You’re hearing all the show ads. It’s everywhere you go down that, I swear to you, we walk through. It’s me, my wife, and the 14 people on our plane. And I look up and there’s this big fella lugging a bag, lugging a bag, ball cap on, shut up. No. And my wife’s like, that looks like Louis Anderson. And I’m like, That’s Louie Anderson, we’re gonna, you know. And there was nobody around, and I went up, and I said, Hey, Louie, I’m Nestor Aparicio. You never emailed me with the comment. Shut up. He did not swear to God. He did that the last thing ever did in his life to me. I We walked together down the the ramp. I said goodbye to him because he was, we were getting luggage, yeah? And he said, You’re gonna write to me, right? I’m gonna turn you into a comedian, I swear to God, this hat. And then you were, like, once again, new. And then during the plague, he died, yeah, yeah, Louis died. So, I mean, like, right, like, right, soon thereafter. I mean, I don’t, I mean, look up Louis Anderson. Yeah, I can’t. But am I gotta get Bruce on he’s over here talking about parks. Hi Bruce, thanks for coming. You’re good. On time. You’re okay. I lost my two o’clock we’re gonna hang we’re gonna talk about animals and Fox and deer and all that good stuff, birds, owls, who, who knows

Cate Paris  24:55

what else sound like. I live in

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Nestor Aparicio  24:58

the woods, so I’m. Louie Anderson was a beautiful man, and so you did improv? Yeah,

Cate Paris  25:04

the Upright Citizens Brigade. I did an improv thing with Robin Williams up in New York a million years ago.

Nestor Aparicio  25:11

We lost Louis three years ago last week. He’s only three years so we lost him january 21 to 22 so, yeah, I’m just telling you, if I ever get on stage and actually do this for two minutes and get jeered at, my stuff will be better than that. It won’t be great if I ever do it. It’s somewhere like rockville where nobody knows who I am. Probably Where

Cate Paris  25:33

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is there a place where nobody knows who you are? Anywhere outside you have to go out of Maryland. You should

Nestor Aparicio  25:38

be my spokesperson. Yeah, please call wise markets, and we’re a farms at that Ocean City, Maryland. I hope you’re listening, so yeah, but I’m gonna work on my comedy now, because you got me going. You should all right, I’ll do it on behalf of Louie. If Louis were here, he would be happy to hold up the magic eight ball tickets. Our friends at wise markets and Maryland lottery sent us out to do this. It’s a cup of soup or bowl doing good things for things like leukemia, lymphoma society and a runner up, although she’s a champion to Me, Kate Paris is here from accelerant. Bruce is gonna be here. We’re gonna talk about parks, Patapsco Park. My wife loves hiking. She’s a hiker. She broke her ankle in the woods back on her birthday, June 1, yeah, and I had to go find her in the woods, get her out and take her to the Yeah. So my wife is a hiker, hiker with the vest on in the little the things that I used to a beer in when I went to Preakness. She puts water in, right, and goes out in the woods. She’s got the poles. She’s got the poles. Bruce young talking about, she got the she got the boots. She is, she goes up to New Hampshire. And because she’s from the Granite State, live free or die, that’s New Hampshire. So she goes, they have lighthouses up there, and she’s been collecting these, these patches or pins from up there. So yeah, so that’s it. That’s what I know. And also, a friend of mine’s daughter is like a park ranger at some park in Middle River that I’ve never heard of, that I’m gonna get to. So we’re gonna talk state parks. I am about six blocks away from one is I just go through Mueller’s house here, and boom, I’m in a state park, and lions and tigers and bears, they’re all there. Oh, my cape Paris, accelerant, leukemia, lymphoma, society, fist bump for you. I’d hug you at all, but it’s a cold and flu season, and I’m at State Fair, and I had chicken waffles. I’m gonna take home some delicious salmon. I would advise everyone to get over here to Catonsville when you do help our friends at Catonsville emergency assistance. They were here El Guapo, the basement, the Beaumont. And of course, here at State Fair, we’re Cooper’s north in Timonium on Friday, we’re at libs grill in Bel Air on Wednesday with county executive Bob Castley up in Harford County, who I’ve never met, and then we’re going to be back at fade these two weeks from now, because I was a complete, complete knucklehead and locked my equipment in the trunk of my car on Tuesday, there was no cup, there was no soup, and there was a bowl over my head from being an idiot. I’m back for more at State Fair. Thanks for coming, Kate, thanks for having me. She’s never coming back. No way she’s doing it.